Can someone please explain exactly why Cuban Americans support a person like Trump?

[Boogiemack]

I know the history but I still do not understand the heavy support of Trump who seems to stand against everything of family and social value for immigrants and minorities in general.

[DURHAM D]

1. Was just asking myself the same thing after

seeing the report on MSNBC about their high support for the Traitor.

[Claustrum]

2. Socialism is a real problem for a lot of people.

My parents are the same. They don't like social programs because it's similar to socialism/communism. They are wrong about what social programs are in the US but republican are good at scaring them and framing it in the way that makes them scared.

[Boogiemack]

8. What kind of socialism? Social Security, Medicare, farm subsidies, tax subsidies..?

The kind that helps people vs the kind that help people who don't really need it? What? Or is it strictly a government looking out for ordinary working men and women and those who are unable to work or the sick and elderly. I still don't get it.

Should government not help it citizens and seek to raise the standard of living for all or just a few?
It seems that there is no limits to wealth even if the holders of such wealth will never be able to spend all they have. At a certain point, having it all should be enough.

[Claustrum]

15. Like I said, they are wrong on their definition of "socialism".

I personally agree with you. But they don't like using their tax dollars to help other people. It's always one of those "lazy" people who gamed the system when they shouldn't.

And of course, it's also the rhetoric coming from republicans claiming everything as "socialism". Have you seen any of their ads? Everything is "socialism" and is super bad. I also don't think the UBI talk helps.

[Goodheart]

3. Castro took their great grandparents' property 60 years ago.

Those great grandparents held onto the belief that the USA would somehow recover such property for them, teaching both that and that "socialism" is evil to their children, and then to their children's children, and then to their children's children's children.

In a nutshell, they're living in la la land.

[uponit7771]

6. That doesn't explain the cultural reasons for supporting Republicans. Republicans leadership does ..

... not value non white cultures in America and for some reason a good portion of Cubans consider themselves "white" cultured.

That's not the way the kGOP sees them or Trump

[Goodheart]

16. Yes, it does.

[uponit7771]

4. My understanding from my Cuban friends a good portion of them consider themselves "white" in culture

... or skin color etc.

The other part is the passed down response of socialism and anything that looks like it.

Imagine Trump and anything that looks like MAGA in the next 10 yrs, the country will repel instantly

[DURHAM D]

12. People do seem to forget that they are "white"

I have two friends that were born in Cuba. One of them is 100% Spanish and the other is 100% German, iows - they considered themselves European.

btw - Their parents died thinking they were going to reclaim the villa but the kids/ grandkids are all Democrats.

[uponit7771]

29. Not all Cubans are white skinned or white cultured and the kGOP doesn't consider them either in

.. anyway.

The kGOP is the most xenophobic and racist administration in my life time.

[Ligyron]

21. That's very true.

Grew up with the first wave of Cubans and heard numerous discussions over the years of how much Castilian blood was in an individual or their familia. Castilians were supposed to be super white or something in their eyes.

Totally unrelated but we live in a beach resort town and the Cuban girls had a heck of a time convincing their madres in particular that it was totally normal and OK to go around in a bathing suit when not actually emersed in the ocean proper.

Bathing suits that were modest in comparison to what younger females wear now I might add, not that there is a thing wrong with them.

[Boogiemack]

24. And the stuff that comes out of Trump's policies and his mouth is ok with them?

Now I am more confused.

[Ligyron]

28. They either don't hear it, don't believe it or rationalize it somehow.

Just like Faux News watchers do when some fact they don't like is presented.

Much of the older generation has died off but they hated Kennedy and Democrats mostly for the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Most of them became American citizens and were very proud to be one too. Of course, it was much easier then for all nationalities.

Unlike Mexicans today, by law if a Cuban could get one foot on American soil, they were in.

[JI7]

5. Kneejerk reaction to accusations of socialism. Some are just sexist , racist , anti gay etc

[Aristus]

7. Their support of vile, despicable, vulgar vainglorious Trump

makes sense when you realize how much they miss vile, despicable, vulgar, vainglorious Battista.

[634-5789]

10. 'vainglorious'. NICE!

[Dream Girl]

18. That's a Steve Schmidt SAT word!

[JI7]

25. Most never lived under Batista. it's about life in Venezuela sucks

life in Cuba sucks.

the fact Batista sucked doesn't change that

[634-5789]

9. They're deathly afraid of any SOCIALISM. And thy've been lied to forever about that.

[marybourg]

13. That's it .

[Klaralven]

11. Immigrants from communist/socialist countries tend to be right wing

Vietnamese have been the most conservative of Asian groups, although that is fading now.

Vietnamese-Americans are more likely to choose President Donald Trump over Democrat Joe Biden in November’s election, according to the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey conducted by three Asian American civic engagement groups. But these results only enforce the growing frustration among a younger, more liberal Vietnamese-American generation.

http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2020/09/21/vietnamese-americans-more-likely-to-vote-for-trump-survey-says-how-are-their-liberal-kids-coping/

[Autumn]

14. Because Cuban Americans and a lot of Hispanics are conservative. Republicans are

not against many of the values they stand for. They are religious, many are right on par with evangelicals in terms of their level of belief in what they are told.

[roamer65]

17. They support anyone who takes a hard line against the Cuban government.

Nothing else matters, just like anti-choice cultists.

[no_hypocrisy]

19. 1. Default: Republicans hate communism and Cuba.

2. Trump dissed Castro’s brother, Raul.
3. Trump re-imposed travel and trade restrictions to/with Cuba.
4. Cubans in exile hope after Trump’s done with Venezuela, Cuba’s next, they can go home, and get their families’ properties back.

[moondust]

20. Ongoing propaganda.

I heard Ana Navarro on TV a few days ago say that there have been ads running in Cuban/refugee areas of Florida for the past 4 years linking Democrats to socialism/Cuba/Venezuela/Maduro/whatever.

[4Q2u2]

22. The Church

Good Old Fashion Catholic Conservatives.
Forgetting that Jesus was a Socialist and ignoring all his teachings.
Forgetting that Catholics used to Unionist and fight for the oppressed little guy.
Oh yeah of course Dead Babies.

[LakeArenal]

23. All cultures have fearful people.

They have “theirs” but don’t want anyone to do better or fearful they will lose theirs.

[Happy Hoosier]

26. A lot of South Florida Cuban-Americans....

were refugees from Castro's Cuba. That kind of resentment runs deep and for many of these folks, the idea of some sort of reconciliation with communist Cuba is just out of the question. So Trump's bullshit "tough guy" act appeals to them because they are responding emotionally, not rationally.

[Binkie The Clown]

27. Maybe they miss Castro.

[marie999]

30. Because in the Cuban community you have smart people who will vote for Biden

and dumb people who will vote for trump just like in every other community in this country.